Maintenance Manager

Benefits:

• Salary Range: $89,900 - $116,900
• Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Paid Time Off
• 401k & Company Match

Maintenance Department Leaders play an important role in helping BBU bake with world‑class practices, win as one team, and grow our people. They embrace the consumer by producing high‑quality products and ensure operational capabilities by supporting their team in executing the Operations Excellence Playbook. Our Maintenance Department Leaders empower and involve their team to achieve key performance metrics and equip each Team Leader to win their shift.

They create a compelling culture by engaging and developing their team through effective coaching strategies and expect ownership and accountability to help their team achieve results across people, safety, quality, service, and cost.

• Oversee the financial and reliability health of the maintenance department, including creating and maintaining annual budgets.
• Lead the growth and development of Team Leaders and Associates.
• Build a culture that values the person, the community, and always acts with integrity.
• Partner with Business Unit leadership, bakery leadership team, and cross‑functional teams to identify and implement profit‑driving strategies and programs.
• Uphold and promote our E5 Leadership Behaviors:
  Embrace the Consumer, Ensure Operational Capabilities, Empower and Involve, Engage and Develop, and Expect Ownership and Accountability.
• Coach Team Leaders towards an empowered, problem‑solving mentality to consistently achieve world‑class standards.
• Operate with a One Team mentality by supporting Team Leaders in collaborating across departments to solve issues and ensure production is to schedule and shipment to order.
• Set priorities for the department and facilitate problem‑solving processes and teams to identify, implement, and communicate solutions.
• Deliver on Key Performance Indicators for People, Asset Reliability, Quality, Safety, Service, and Cost.
• Engage and develop core competencies in Team Leaders through onboarding, training, coaching, and consistent performance feedback.
• Achieve all safety goals. Deliver safety awareness programs to eliminate unsafe acts and conditions that contribute to workplace injuries. Comply with workplace standards, company policies, and government regulations.
• Ensure product quality by identifying, prioritizing, and bringing solutions to focus issues.
• Manage budgets for capital investments, Parts Room Optimization, glazing, downtime, and damages.
• Equip Team Leaders to serve sales by analyzing data to ensure all production processes are running efficiently and the team is set up for success.

Operational Execution:
This role requires the ability to think strategically about business needs, set data‑based priorities, and build plans with Team Leaders, fellow Department Leaders, and their Bakery Leader to achieve improved business KPIs. The ideal candidate will have experience setting, achieving, and exceeding business performance targets, consistently striving to achieve goals, proactively developing contingency plans, and seeking opportunities to enhance the status quo.

Set the Standard:
This role has overall responsibility for achievement of Operations Excellence standards in their department. The candidate must be able to travel for meetings, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), benchmarking, with an average of 10‑15% of their time allocated for this purpose. They will have knowledge of safety and environmental‑related concepts, including compliance with State, Federal, and Local regulations.

Driving our Culture:
Our GB values and culture are what make our company different. It is critical that the Department Leader builds a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, providing consistent leadership in working with and managing bakery leadership and associates while emphasizing teamwork and collaboration that leads to high‑quality products, high associate engagement, and successful financial results.

Be a Change Leader:
Drive the realization of Operations Excellence efforts across our manufacturing facilities…